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but studying french with nine other than george to would be the prime minister of france. going one step further and nina went to college was up in poughkeepsie new york. the oldest, will, 17 was about to close out high-school at the prestigious seminary in east hampton and massachusetts. graduation was a few weeks away if he could make it without being expelled. he is charming, handsome and complete ambivalent about his education. even so scanner hoped he would go to yale. also libby, 14 at boarding school in new haven connecticut putter's school year just ended and she was home again. joe 11, of belle glade was eager for summer break. joe bought a baseball bat and a very young guests catherine only six on sold recently made her first appearance in public with the world delighting in her as she in it. skinner's train pulled into new haven before 6:00 departing passengers grabbed their bags for a throng of do face is come aboard looking for an available seat if they wanted to read with the light of day. then the train pulled into north hampton were skinner made his way to
but studying french with nine other than george to would be the prime minister of france. going one step further and nina went to college was up in poughkeepsie new york. the oldest, will, 17 was about to close out high-school at the prestigious seminary in east hampton and massachusetts. graduation was a few weeks away if he could make it without being expelled. he is charming, handsome and complete ambivalent about his education. even so scanner hoped he would go to yale. also libby, 14 at...
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an entire village from the french government in the northeast of france. it was a leading -- legal, binding document. and she rebuilt it after the war. the french were going to abandon this village. they considered it so hopelessly bombed by the germans. and belle came in, she took it on, and it exists to this day because of her. and she was this larger-than-life figure. you know, she called the president of france ray ray, she had nicknames for everyone, and she signed her letters with oceans of love, she wore this fabulous hats, and she was very handsome and had this extraordinary, commanding presence is and worked with the french government to rebuild their country. and i wondered as i began to look into her life what would compel this woman, then in her 50s leading a very comfortable life, to become so passionately involved in resurrecting a devastated village? >> well, rewind. when she was 7 years old, the village which she was born in, skinnerville, was destroyed in a flood and never rebuilt. so i began to research the flood as an inroad into belle s
an entire village from the french government in the northeast of france. it was a leading -- legal, binding document. and she rebuilt it after the war. the french were going to abandon this village. they considered it so hopelessly bombed by the germans. and belle came in, she took it on, and it exists to this day because of her. and she was this larger-than-life figure. you know, she called the president of france ray ray, she had nicknames for everyone, and she signed her letters with oceans...
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to borrow, to try to raise money in france from the french government to pay for the revolution. he decided to take his 10-year-old son john quincy adams with him, his oldest, his firstborn, the oldest of his three sons. john quincy adams buy then was a devoted patriot at 7-years-old when his father was in the continental congress. his mother abigail adams heard fire in the distance and she took her boy up to the top of the hill behind in quincy massachusetts so they could look across boston bay and they saw the battle of bunker hill. and she took her boy by the hand, came back down by the farm house and began melting down the family pewter to make muskets for the patriots and she told her son at the time you must rise to the head of your country, and if you don't succeed, it will be because of your own laziness and obstinacy. [laughter] you must make a revolution, resolution in favor of virtue, integrity and love of your country. and that's how john and abigail adams raised their way from the beginning, their oldest son come to be virtuous, honest and to love and serve his count
to borrow, to try to raise money in france from the french government to pay for the revolution. he decided to take his 10-year-old son john quincy adams with him, his oldest, his firstborn, the oldest of his three sons. john quincy adams buy then was a devoted patriot at 7-years-old when his father was in the continental congress. his mother abigail adams heard fire in the distance and she took her boy up to the top of the hill behind in quincy massachusetts so they could look across boston...
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jefferson was slow getting back to france. so hamilton took over many of the duties of the secretary of state and he didn't want to relinquish him. he liked power. >> other questions? go ahead. >> mr. unger, how young were you when you recognized it had an extraordinary aptitude to immerse yourself in the soul of your subjects and their society? [laughter] >> i think it was just this morning when you called me a tiered i'm not sure how to answer your question. i've been a journalist all my life and what i write today is nothing more than an extension of journalism. i don't really rate these books. i let the characters speak for themselves. i feel as if i'm interviewing them and let them tell their own stories. [inaudible] >> now, i played with my rubber ducky. >> what are you doing next? >> i'm working on development of the supreme court and john marshall and how he salvaged the supreme court from jefferson. it's really the story of what happened around the year 1800, which is a year turmoil in this country, were all these pri
jefferson was slow getting back to france. so hamilton took over many of the duties of the secretary of state and he didn't want to relinquish him. he liked power. >> other questions? go ahead. >> mr. unger, how young were you when you recognized it had an extraordinary aptitude to immerse yourself in the soul of your subjects and their society? [laughter] >> i think it was just this morning when you called me a tiered i'm not sure how to answer your question. i've been a...
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by the time he got to new york france and the revolution had already become this hugely important issue domestically in american politics. but everybody in the early days was for it, even jon marshall said everyone believed that our revolutions were linked, and he pressed for the pro disposition and the washington administration as he could get. as it grew more violent and more violent he wishes he had grown more exquisitely skeptical, but he tended to idealize what had happened. i think because he was there and then he wasn't if that makes sense. i think that he had -- i don't mean to sound odd about this but i think that he had observed the possibilities in a sensuous and tactile way key smelled of the smell of liberty. then he left and was somehow easier to idealize it even after the violence had started the and if he hadn't been there at all. so i think the smell of the chestnuts and the guillotine for fighting with each other. i don't know what a guillotine really smells like or means but i just say that. but he should have been harder on the extremism of the french revolution then
by the time he got to new york france and the revolution had already become this hugely important issue domestically in american politics. but everybody in the early days was for it, even jon marshall said everyone believed that our revolutions were linked, and he pressed for the pro disposition and the washington administration as he could get. as it grew more violent and more violent he wishes he had grown more exquisitely skeptical, but he tended to idealize what had happened. i think...
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okay, then how does that account for rising income inequality in canada or, indeed, even in france, in germany, in the united kingdom? i mean, it's happening all over the world, it's also happening in emerging markets. but i think it is important to face that scary because if you see it just as a political phenomenon, you know, you're going to lose sight of what i think is the biggest challenge which is that these, actually, quite benign economic forces, right? i love the technology revolution, i'm a google addict. they're also drivers of social and political consequences which are not quite so benign. the way i like to look at it, and this is a quote from peter orszag, is, you know, how he sees it is he said, look, the big drivers are probably these economic forces, but the issue is that particularly in the united states the politics instead of trying to mitigate these very powerful economic forces has exacerbated them. so even as you have these economic forces creating much, much more concentration at the very top, you expect politics to sort of try to so much that blow. social insti
okay, then how does that account for rising income inequality in canada or, indeed, even in france, in germany, in the united kingdom? i mean, it's happening all over the world, it's also happening in emerging markets. but i think it is important to face that scary because if you see it just as a political phenomenon, you know, you're going to lose sight of what i think is the biggest challenge which is that these, actually, quite benign economic forces, right? i love the technology revolution,...
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about the third or week of august he gets a letter from france saying napoleon was having second thoughts. so severeson says, well, i do think we have the power there, and, boom, it's done. [laughter] franklin roosevelt, when he was taking the critical steps to preparing us and providing aid to britain in the runup to the great contest over liberty in the middle of the 20th century explicitly pointed to the louisiana purchase as a model for what an executive should do in a teem of crisis. in a time of crisis. jefferson himself said that the duty of a magistrate is to the line of the law, but it is not the highest duty. that the survival and success of the country is your highest obligation. one person's imperial president i is another person's hero. one person's tyranny is another person's brilliant reform. part of what we have to struggle with from age to age in america is realizing that some generations there's going to be an excess of power useed in a way -- used in a way in which we approve, and in some generations there's going to be an excess of power used in ways which we would fig
about the third or week of august he gets a letter from france saying napoleon was having second thoughts. so severeson says, well, i do think we have the power there, and, boom, it's done. [laughter] franklin roosevelt, when he was taking the critical steps to preparing us and providing aid to britain in the runup to the great contest over liberty in the middle of the 20th century explicitly pointed to the louisiana purchase as a model for what an executive should do in a teem of crisis. in a...
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the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the novel that had been playing for decades. he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules verne's grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. they're surrounded by local boy scouts he later wreath with the message in memory of jules verne, from his greatest admirer . avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about their place in the world. bicyclist who were not from the western imperial powers began to rebound and the bicycle as a peaceful way to see the world. certain cycle the world from 1901-1904, gathering admiring newspaper accounts as he did so, but because he did not publish his own narrative of the journey, he remained better known w
the juvenile from a climaxed during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris seesaw around the world in 80 days, a very popular stage version of the novel that had been playing for decades. he watched a copy of the novel being printed expressly for him down in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. he then met jules...
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marilyn monroe at being crosbies house that was moved from frank sinatra because kennedy had been warned franc was involved with some mafia. you can imagine bill o'reilly looking at these names. and everyone knew that president kennedy would sleep with marilyn monroe that night. period. no retribution. how does he know that? he had a source from the london daily mail, a tabloid that had recorded this years ago and confirmed by secret service agent who was at the party but could not be identified. is that verifiable? it is something. sources are important. how he knows he is writing about is important and a popular history losses over that. >> guest: 2012 in general there were conversations of fact checking, corroborating sources, that what you wrote to was true and it brought down general there who writing about neuroscience so the book imagine can now and it turns out he had fabricated one source said copied extensively from earlier writings. as a result the publisher had to withdraw the book and it remains to b.c. -- remains to be seen his career. >> host: "the new york times" best seller li
marilyn monroe at being crosbies house that was moved from frank sinatra because kennedy had been warned franc was involved with some mafia. you can imagine bill o'reilly looking at these names. and everyone knew that president kennedy would sleep with marilyn monroe that night. period. no retribution. how does he know that? he had a source from the london daily mail, a tabloid that had recorded this years ago and confirmed by secret service agent who was at the party but could not be...
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the juvenile drama climaxed when he returned in subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a luncheon with ahead of the canadian pacific railway, and even better, he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris, huld saw a "around the world in 80 days" from a very popular stage version of verne's novel that had been playing really for decades. he watched a copy of the knowledge imprinted expressly for him bound in gold and them lost with his name on the cover. huld they met jules burns grandfather. there's about five local boy scouts he later relayed the message, [inaudible] >> adult world circulars at the time also uploaded aviation in order to make some kind of point about the place in the world. bicyclists who were not in the western in their power begin to rebrand the bicycle as a peaceful me to wait to see the world. because he did not publish his own narrative of the journey he remained that enough with an agent and beyond. he was later pleased to welcome to japan three fellow asian cyclers, a trio of young men who did a
the juvenile drama climaxed when he returned in subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a luncheon with ahead of the canadian pacific railway, and even better, he met sir robert powell, founder of the boy scouts. when he was in paris, huld saw a "around the world in 80 days" from a very popular stage version of verne's novel that had been playing really for decades. he watched a copy of the knowledge imprinted expressly for him bound in gold and them lost with...
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the juvenile drama drama climax has hold return during subsequent visits to england and france. in london he attended a gala luncheon with the head of the canadian pacific railway and even better he met sir robert powell, founders of voice scouts. when he was in warsaw around the world in 80 days of popular stage version of byrnes novel that had been playing for it decades, he watched the copy of the novel being printed expressly for him bound in gold and embossed with his name on the cover. holds then met jules byrnes grandson who escorted him to grandfather's grave. there, surrounded by local boy scouts he later read the message in memory of jules byrnes from his greatest admirer. adult world circles at at the time a avoided aviation in order to make some kind of point about the places in the world. bicyclists who were not from the western imperial powers for example began to rebrand the bicycle is a peaceful way to see the world. teaching at the morrow for example circumciscircumcis ed a world from 19 1219 four gathered admiring newspaper accounts as he did so but because he
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>> guest: that's his second wife, frances louisa tracy, whom he married about three years later, 1865, just at the end of the civil war, right after lincoln was shot and the war was concluded. that was an ok marriage for maybe 10 or 15 years. they had four children, who were also in the picture you just held up, but very quickly, it became clear that they had very different tastes and very different instinct. he loved new york, he loved throngs of people, he was a workaholic, he liked activity and travel -- adventurous travel. she was much more domestic and quiet. she liked being home with the children, she wanted to leave new york for suburban new jersey; she wasn't very interested in art, he was passionate about art. so after about 15 years, he kind of kept the atlantic between them. he would go off to europe in the spring and summer with a party of friends and travel around, often--sometimes he would take one of his daughters, and then later, he would take a mistress. and when he came back from europe, he would send his wife abroad in the fall and winter with one of their daughters
>> guest: that's his second wife, frances louisa tracy, whom he married about three years later, 1865, just at the end of the civil war, right after lincoln was shot and the war was concluded. that was an ok marriage for maybe 10 or 15 years. they had four children, who were also in the picture you just held up, but very quickly, it became clear that they had very different tastes and very different instinct. he loved new york, he loved throngs of people, he was a workaholic, he liked...